Cloudflare and Cloudinary

Ceci Derma

April 29, 2014 01:46

Hi,

I am using Cloudinary to speed up my website  http://www.dermatologodf.com 

How can i set up Cloudinary in Cloudflare? Do I need to use a CNAME? How can I integrate your service with Cloudflare?

 

I am using 

- W3 Super Cache and it asks a CNAME for the CDN used like       http://cd1.dermatologodf.com

Look forward to your response

Many thanks in advance!

Ceci

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  Itay Taragano

  April 29, 2014 09:23

  Images and transformed images generated and delivered by Cloudinary are already highly optimized, cached the delivered through a fast worldwide CDN (Akamai and CloudFront). Therefore, while CloudFlare is great for optimizing your website, you don't have an advantage of passing your Cloudinary-originated images through CloudFlare, and you will probably lose part of the advantages of Cloudinary's high-end image delivery solutions.

  Therefore, the best way is to make sure that CloudFlare simply passes Cloudinary image URLs as-is. You should be able to do that by modifying CloudFlare's cache policies and defining custom Page Rules ( http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pagerules-fine-grained-feature-co), this way you use Cloudflare for you site but Cloudinary for your images.

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  Ceci Derma

  April 29, 2014 16:09

  Thanks Itay,

   

  I read the link but I want to be sure when setting those rules... let-s say one of my images is here : http://dermatologodf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/acne.jpg 

  Should I state the rule like http://dermatologodf.com/wp-content/uploads/* ??

   

  Looking forward to your reply

  Ceci

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  Itay Taragano

  May 01, 2014 22:05

  Hi Ceci,

  Note that images under "http://dermatologodf.com/wp-content/uploads/*" are your WordPress'a Media library items.

  Cloudinary images' URLs are under "http://res.cloudinary.com/*".

  You should set a rule which passes "http://res.cloudinary.com/*" URLs as is (in other words, bypass Cloudflare for such URLs).

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  James Dong

  March 19, 2015 00:28

  Hi just to follow up on this, Itay I tried your suggestion to add https://res.cloudinary.com/* as a page rule but CloudFlare threw an error saying: "ERROR Your URL should reference the domain 'lastmingear.com' in some way."

  Any thoughts on how else to do this?

  Thanks!

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  Itay Taragano

  March 22, 2015 12:55

  Hi James,

  Just checking, can you please try to remove the rule and see if everything works for you?
  Thanks

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  Vladimir Trajkovic

  May 24, 2015 17:34

  Hi Ceci,
  I wonder if your issue is solved? I have the same problem that I cannot solve.
  Thanks,
  Vladimir

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  Itay Taragano

  May 27, 2015 20:48

  Hi Vladimir,
  Can you please share some more information regarding the issue you encountered with? If privacy is an issue, please feel free to open a support ticket.

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